file permission problem hi scores

Bug #396428 reported by DonQuichote
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powermanga (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: powermanga

Base info:
Using Xubuntu 9.04 both regular and with "proposed" (two systems, both have the same issue).
Powermanga version: 0.90-dfsg-1
I expect the high scores to be updated after playing a game, but they do not. I think this causes it:

The files containing the high scores are only writeable by root. However, every normal user should be able to update the high scores.

The files are located in /var/games/powermanga/:
powermanga.hi
powermanga.hi-easy
powermanga.hi-hard

The "easy" one is used with `powermanga --easy` etc. Setting the files to "world writeable" causes the high scores to be updated as expected. Tested for long playing hours with both normal and easy mode ;)

FURTHER INFO:
There exists a group "games" of which the normal user account (the account I created during the Xubuntu installation) is NOT a member. I can imagine that people would want to restrict gaming possibilities and you could set the above files to be only writeable by group "games". However, that would also cause the game to run less than optimal without tweaking.

Revision history for this message
Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. If you could test the current Ubuntu development version or the final release version of Xubuntu 9.10, this would help us a lot. If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect 396428.

Changed in powermanga (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

I would also suggest contacting the game developers and have the user files moved to ~/.config to allow the user to write to them as needed.

Changed in powermanga (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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